There is an incredibly good chance that will work. I am a new user of linux (about 3-4 months in) and I love it.

I started out with Fedora Core 6 and decided to switch to Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10). I've been very happy with the switch and really enjoy Ubuntu. Although I recommend both.

Recently Ubuntu released 7.04 and I have put that on my laptop. It has a lot of improvement in the wireless area. For instance, it added a network manager in the system tray that lets you put it in roaming mode so you can see all available networks.

When installing the wireless card I had to use the NDIS wrapper. This allows you to use a windows driver if the company that makes your wireless card has not written a driver for your laptop's wireless yet. This took me a few hours to figure out how to do but it was time well spent because I learned a lot. At this point I'm sure I could do very quickly. There are many posts on how to do it so I have no doubt you will be able to figure it out.